The World Below Surface

Chapter 45

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This sentence caused the temperature in the entire car to drop by 7 or 8 degrees. After a long while, Chu Xiu finally asked, "What you just said... is it true?"

Lu Yanli had returned to his expressionless look, and he lowered his eyelids, wondering what he was thinking. After a while, he said indifferently, "Whatever you think."

Soon, we arrived at another hotel.

As soon as the car stopped, Nie Yunzhen and Shi Yan came over, obviously curious about Lu Yanli.

Chu Xiu said he brought someone back, why do they look like they are friends

When did they meet? Or did Chu Xiu trick the other person into being like a good friend in such a short period of time

This person... I feel like he is being fooled. He seems to be quite smart.

Lu Yanli let them look at him, nodded slightly, and had no intention of saying hello.

Anyway, his goal has been achieved.

The moment Chu Xiu agreed, Lu Yanli deepened his psychological suggestion to him, reminding him to always remember to find out the news about the Omniscient God Cult for him.

‌We need to know the development of this "God" in another world.

‌’s previous target was An Xingyu, but he left Honghe Village in a hurry and left before he had time to strengthen the psychological hint.

But now it seems that Chu Xiu would be a better choice, and he should live longer than An Xingyu. An Xingyu is still a student, so he has some limitations.

Lu Yanli has been searching for so many years. Even though he keeps cheering himself up and giving himself positive psychological hints every day, he still feels a little desperate deep down in his heart. How can it be so good to be the only one sober while everyone else is drunk? He often tries to figure out whether everything is just his own fantasy.

Fortunately, the appearance of these taskers allows us to see from time to time what the normal world should have looked like before the mutation.

‌Absolutely, I will never give up.

Lu Yanli went around with the three of them and bought some daily necessities. After dinner, he asked the waiter to pack up four bowls of rice.

Incense ash mixed with rice, also known as dead person's rice, crossroads have always been accident-prone places. In addition to the fact that the road conditions are indeed prone to causing car accidents, there are also some urban legends claiming that people who died in car accidents wander at the crossroads and cannot find their way home, so people have to help these ghosts eat their fill.

And living people eating rice mixed with incense ash... I heard that it is easy to see dead people, and even worse, you may become a dead person!

Not to mention, the Yinming Road has been promoted by the people of this city as the junction of yin and yang. Playing in this place is even more risky.

Four people were walking on the street, and the sun had just set. At this moment, a black cat suddenly swooped down from a tree and jumped into Lu Yanli's arms.

There was a missing cat notice on the tree trunk, and the photo on it was exactly the same as the one in ‌'s arms. At this moment, the little black cat stepped on ‌'s elbow, held a student ID card in its mouth and placed it in his palm, then meowed twice.

The contact person is Wen Qing.

It seems... Wen Qing and the others are still trapped in an infinite cycle, and this cat, like the previous few days, has come to them on its own initiative.

"Do you want to send it back?" Shi Yan's heart suddenly softened.

After restarting the mission with Chu Xiu as the center, they avoided Wen Qing and Yun Qian, and naturally did not know the lethality of these two names. Shi Yan liked cats very much, and even when she was on a mission, she could not help but soften her heart towards cats.

Lu Yanli shook his head: "You've wasted time." After that, he put the cat in his arms on the ground, stuffed the student ID back into the cat's mouth, and patted its butt gently, "Go back by yourself."

It doesn't matter if the cat cannot be found, because Wen Qing is missing one condition for resurrection. If he cannot be resurrected, he cannot kill everyone in the hotel, including Wen Zhengxin. This may be able to break the vicious circle.

The black cat opened its green eyes and nimbly dodged Shi Yan's hand that wanted to touch it, then jumped back onto the tree. Its black fur quickly disappeared in the green shade and could be seen clearly.

Everything is ready, just waiting for night to fall.

The night sky is even darker today, and the moon and stars are barely visible in the darkness. When the vehicle drives towards Yinming Road, the surrounding environment becomes even darker, just like a pot of melted thick ink.

Nie Yunzhen specially selected some quiet music for the car. He knew who Chu Xiu had invited, but even Chu Xiu was so friendly to him, so he naturally would not be so stupid as to provoke him.

There were more and more trees outside the window, but there was hardly a trace of green leaves. After driving a little further, the car lights illuminated the sign for Yinming Road.

"We're here." Nie Yunzhen said.

"Let's wait here first and go over after midnight." Chu Xiu said.

Lu Yanli sat in the back seat, Shi Yan was on his left, holding a thermos bucket filled with rice in her arms. She looked out the window and suddenly thought of Ye Shengke again, and sighed softly.

Xiao Ye is dead... How long can she live

She was really fed up with seeing the darkness of hope in the long future. She thought countless times about just dying like those people, but the desire for life deep in her heart made her put down the knife countless times.

Why choose death when you can live

These were the words Ye Shengke used to comfort her.

Nie Yunzhen saw Shi Yan's unhappy expression in the mirror, so she turned down the music in the car to something more cheerful, and said, "Hey, even if the dead can be resurrected, we should focus on the present first."

Shi Yan took a deep breath: "I'm fine." She forced herself to be strong and tried to divert her attention, but the fear of death and the grief over the departure of her friends made it difficult for her to recover for a while.

However, Nie Yunzhen's words left some ripples in her heart.

Can a dead person really be resurrected

After waiting for a long time, the cold gradually set in, the frost and dew were heavy, and midnight finally arrived.

Needless to say, Nie Yunzhen had already started the car and drove forward. After driving forward for a while in the dark, he could see a crossroads ahead.

"Should we start now?" Nie Yunzhen asked with certainty. Chu Xiu said, "Let's start. The sooner we finish, the sooner we can go back."

The four of them got out of the car in the cold wind and came to the center of the intersection. This task did not require them to be completed individually, so they decided to do it together to save time.

Nie Yunzhen took out a dozen incense sticks from the bag he was carrying, and then took out a lighter from his pocket. He lit the incense with one hand and held the incense with the other. But something strange happened. His lighter couldn't light the incense at all.

Yes, yes, it can be ignited and sparks can be produced, but that little spark is extinguished in an instant. Does this prove anything

The other three people also thought of a terrible possibility...

Chu Xiu lightly scolded: "You just scare yourself." After that, he put his hands together to help block the wind so that Nie Yunzhen could continue ordering.

This time, the incense was lit easily.

Nie Yunzhen breathed a sigh of relief and distributed three cigarettes to each person.

Shi Yan and Lu Yanli were busy serving rice. In order to avoid any accidents, they chose the smallest bowls. Four bowls of white rice were placed in a row, each with three incense sticks neatly inserted on it, and white smoke was rising.

Time passed minute by minute, and the three incense sticks gradually burned to the end. The incense ash stood for a while, and then fell down due to the breeze, landing on the rice that had long been cooled by the wind.

The three incense sticks on the four bowls of rice have all burned out.

Next, we have to eat it.

Shi Yan held the bowl and stirred it with chopsticks for a while. The white rice was sticky and granular, which made her feel sick. She gritted her teeth and took a mouthful.

Nausea, vomiting, too bad to eat…

In order to survive, Shi Yan resisted the urge to vomit. He looked at the others and saw that their expressions were also very difficult.

Only the newcomer named Lu Yanli had a very calm expression, and his face looked as if he was eating normal food. It was as if a robot was stiffly pouring motor oil into its mouth and stuffing food into its mouth with no expression. It made people lose their appetite and was also quite nauseating.

Seeing that the newcomer was so good, Shi Yan finally understood why Chu Xiu had to find him and why he had to go and take it himself. After she encouraged herself in her heart, she gritted her teeth and continued to eat hard.

A small bowl was eaten up quickly.

Lu Yanli endured the uncomfortable reaction from his stomach for a few seconds, then sat up straight and looked around in a small area.

It is said that if you eat the food of the dead, you will see ghosts.

But I saw nothing.

It was still the pitch-black night sky, the white road surface, a blank, nothing.

Instead, Shi Yan slowly widened her eyes.

She saw me… She saw me!

According to legend, if you accidentally see a ghost, you must make it known. Pretending to see it is fine, but if the ghost notices you or you make eye contact with the ghost, you will either die or be injured.

Shi Yan lowered her head firmly, not daring to say much, but her eyes gradually drifted towards Chu Xiu and Nie Yunzhen.

Can we see it